Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technical developments made possible both a greater variety and quality of signals and also more convenient ways of listening . |
| 2 | It well it does tapes yeah but it 's like the bass keeps on going down then it goes high then the main bit 's like You know what I mean it all gets crapped up so i 'll tape it again . |
| 3 | Clarify a definite beginning and end for the task , and make clear how the effectiveness of the decision will be assessed . |
| 4 | Erm as the scale of the problem became clear however the Party was forced to react and in a series of directives between February and May nineteen forty eight the leadership established more moderate ground rules for land reform . |
| 5 | As it stands , this organisation does not make clear how the parts relate to each other , what the development is , or even what the point is of some of the parts ( why should there be a special section devoted to her final novel but not the others , for example ? ) . |
| 6 | World War I , therefore , came as a terrible blow , but she persevered in keeping alive both the British section of the International Association for Labour Legislation and the World 's Labour Laws — to such effect that in February 1919 it was she who wrote the draft to the Paris commission on the basis of the International Labour Office to be established by the Versailles treaty . |
| 7 | The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December . |
| 8 | Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals . |
| 9 | But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain . |
| 10 | But I do not regard these factors as justifying sweeping away the law which for so long has regulated the conduct of charitable corporations . |
| 11 | If they appear new then the electrical wiring is possibly up to scratch , since no professional electrician would install new power points without checking the wiring first . |
| 12 | Now unfortunately , that 's how it should of worked but the message got lost down the line somewhere . |
| 13 | In complete figures the head generally sits straight on the lion-neck , but the long , sinuous bird 's neck is a constant feature of the cauldron-heads . |
| 14 | By mid-afternoon , with DeFreitas absent nursing a sore groin , and after Botham and Lawrence had shared a fruitless new-ball partnership , Gooch 's men were looking right down the barrel . |
| 15 | A marriage begun without financial security looks hazardous to the poet , let alone where the man seems cunning and manipulative . |
| 16 | Turned blue once a year . |
| 17 | He woke clear-eyed late the next morning . |
| 18 | Bouquets of flowers mark the spot where Mr Reynolds was shot dead exactly a week ago . |
| 19 | In 1985 builder Tom Barnes became suspicious about a £4,000 interest charge for a three-month period . |
| 20 | If the price were to remain constant then the gain received on redemption would be constant . |
| 21 | If the value of the whole expression , , is to remain constant then the value of the numerator must also fall . |
| 22 | One of the most famous enabled you to look right down a spitting Pipeline barrel through the snake 's eye at the far end towards the mountains in the distance . |
| 23 | He poured the wine and Robyn gradually , inch by inch , moment by moment , found herself slowly beginning to relax , to actually feel comfortable in her surroundings — something she would have thought impossible only a few minutes ago . |
| 24 | okay and we 've got opposite over a hundred and twenty at the moment and we want we just want opposite . |
| 25 | If the vessel is sold unrepaired then the measure of indemnity will be the depreciation in the sale price caused by the unrepaired damage , provided such depreciation would not exceed the reasonable cost of repairs if the vessel had been repaired at the time of loss . |
| 26 | Neil , Gavin and Joyce acted full out the parts they actually played in the main stage performance and read in the other parts with scripts in their hands . |
| 27 | If we study the annual function of social capital — hence of the total capital of which the individual capital forms only fractional parts , whose movement is their individual movement and simultaneously integrating link in the movement of the total capital — and its results , i.e. , if we study the commodity-product furnished by society during the year , then it must become apparent how the process of reproduction of the social capital takes place , what characteristics distinguish this process of reproduction from the process of reproduction of an individual capital , and what characteristics are common to both . |
| 28 | But it will render precise almost every judgment on run-outs , and that alone would clear away a lot of dirt . |
| 29 | ‘ Damn , ’ said Charlie under his breath , as the moon made another entrance on to the centre of the stage and left them lying motionless only a street 's length away from safety . |
| 30 | ‘ All the farms in France are lying idle now the white people have gone into space . ’ |